I’ve written about the downward spiral of Amazon before.There are many ways to tell when you’ve finally lost your customer base, but this is the most blatant. A consumer antitrust lawsuit in U.S. court. If you read that article you will learn the Feds have a few suits of their own as well. I have said it many times and it looks like the investment (and government) world is finally catching on. Apple is not … How To Tell When You’ve Lost Your Customer BaseRead more
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Qt – Printing – Taxes — Pt. 2
Apple Screws The Known Universe For whatever reason Apple (AAPL) has been allowed to maintain the CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) software for Linux and other platforms. Despite what people may tell you Apple is not a technology company, it’s a cult. That’s how you get idiots to spend over $1000 on an iDiot Phone and a ludicrous $53K for a desktop computer. Apple has, on multiple occasions abandoned computer platforms and operating systems, yet … Qt – Printing – Taxes — Pt. 2Read more
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Qt – Printing – Taxes — Pt. 1
Unlike many of my “journey” post series, I actually have to complete most of this. It’s not experimenting for the sake of experimenting. It’s a need which keeps coming around every year. Those of you who have read “The Minimum You Need to Know About Qt and Databases” ISBN-13: 978-0-9823580-5-4 have an inkling about this. Please allow a thumbnail sketch for those less well read. Whenever I’m experimenting with/trying to learn some new tools there … Qt – Printing – Taxes — Pt. 1Read more
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JED – Long delay at launch issue
Since the mailing list archive isn’t much in the way of searchable or at least doesn’t seem to be well indexed by search engines I will be keeping a series of posts on my blog with some of the “newer” and more interesting Jed issues as well as various configuration stuff I’ve found useful. Most of you have probably already noticed other posts covering this text editor. When one is working in a terminal it … JED – Long delay at launch issueRead more
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Making the Netgear A6210 AC1200 Wifi Adapter Work With YABU
Anyone who has tried a YABU (Yet Another uBUntu) based on Ubuntu 16.x knows they really hosed wireless networking. My HP laptop has become almost unusable when it comes to checking email or writing a blog post in bed. It was fine before this debacle. Given that Ubuntu 16.04 has been out for 8 months I don’t really see any light at the end of this particular tunnel. This finally pushed me to get a … Making the Netgear A6210 AC1200 Wifi Adapter Work With YABURead more